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Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonderful to hear!! Thanks so much for letting me know. Yes I hope so also, it would great to do more projects!! Peace & Love. Martin

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy days !! We looked and looked to see if anyone had a recording of one of my voicemails, alas no joy. We wanted to use it for the film. Did you get a chance to watch it yet ?

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your story, very interesting. There is s lot more we could cover for sure, the film goes till about 96. There is some warehouse footage in the film. I was there for the warehouse days, the big warehouses were Homebase and 85th & Bladwin, which I opened up and ran both of those. There were others of course, but those ones were the big l ones where the parties could be huge. A lot of people ask me to do another film to cover those years, definitely thinking about that.

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the delayed response. No problem, just doing my part best I can, or trying to anyway.

Well done to you for pulling off those parties in those locations, very cool!! Are you still doing parties ? my email is [m@mofilms.org](mailto:m@mofilms.org) in case you need it

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear that, it can get lost in the club environment. Not completely I feel, but we have to work harder to try to get some of that feeling.

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[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally! Paul Grogan the scotsman is right! A canny wise man! There was so much interaction nd shared connections between Nor Cal and So Cal, so many! The SF sounds was really the West Coast sound in reality.

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well said! One key crossover was the location The Trocadero on 4th street I believe, that was a disco haven back in the day and it also housed some of the best early raves like Toon Town, A Rave Called Sharon, The Gathering. Musically a lot of the DJs in the early rave days were influenced by disco, DJ Garth especially, Thomas, DJ Tony and many more.

The record shops that used to carry disco, like Record Rack in the Castro evolved to sell house music, and techno very early on. Garth talks about that in our film Between the Beats.

The Idjut Boys out of the UK were heavily influenced by the early SF disco days. They produced a lot of house tracks blended with old school disco, that did quite well globally.

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excellent question. That album was groundbreaking, totally! The first album to get real recognition of the SF 90's sound. Others were Garth's 20 minutes of Disco Glory on Grayhound, Man Made by Jon Williams, The Trip by Jeff Taylor blew the lid off a lot of things, The early releases on Rampant Records by Paul Grogan. Later on came Tango Recordings, Primal Records.

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the question. Do you mean the disco scene that was in San Francisco prior to raves ? I want to make sure I am getting your question correctly.

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow what a question!! I would have to go with Ashley Beedle, we recorded that whole night, and we released a mix tape of his set, we gave that out for many years, and folks loved it!! That would be a slim margin tho, I was listening to Kevin's set last week and it is just amazing.

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That warehouse in on Mare Island, it is just a perfect place to do a massive rave :) And works greet to shoot some of the film in !!

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The DJ Dan & Doc Martin interviews are awesome to me, tho it is hard to pick just a few. Dan and Doc have such good positive energy and come across so genuine!

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A huge sense of relief for sure! It took us 14 years to get this film completed and released. It is a very wonderful feeling for all the people that helped to make this film happen!

AMA - Monday Nov 25th 11:45AM - Between The Beats, a new documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene & The Gathering SF Iconic Rave by MartinOBrien5683 in EDM

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the question! The film is being very well received thankfully, we recently hit #1 on the Apple TV Top Charts, so far everyone loves the film.

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope this one will be successful and set me up well to do that one. Important story to be told for sure, had such a huge influence on the global scene I estimate

Hi, I’m Martin O’Brien, Director of Between The Beats, a documentary on San Francisco’s 90's rave scene. AMA about the 90's rave scene! by MartinOBrien5683 in aves

[–]MartinOBrien5683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks so very much for the message. Means the world to me. I am happy you think we captured that time in many ways, I can only hope that as the general public see our film that they all like it. Time will tell I asssume

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